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Re:Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook? by webwright on Sunday August 12, 2007 @06:46PM (#41738)
..."And Zuckerberg stole the idea anyway."

Google stole the idea for Adwords, too.

Besides, how can you steal the idea "a community for college kids"? We had one of these when I was in college (the earliest days of the internet)... It sucked, but a lot of us used it.

On the caring about FB front, however-- I agree. Great article here calling Facebook "AOL 2.0":

http://www.kottke.org/07/07/facebook-vs-aol-redux

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Re:Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook? by irrelative on Monday August 13, 2007 @02:55PM (#42033)
I was with the author on that until that line. This group, better than any other I've found on the internet, surely understands how little the actual idea of facebook is worth.

Why didn't Zuckerberg's friends make the site themselves? Maybe because it was easier to not make it, and then demand money from him later especially after facebook became really successful.

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Re:Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook? by rms on Sunday August 12, 2007 @10:13PM (#41813)
What was the community for college kids? Usenet?
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